- subclass Ostracoda
- nounseed shrimps• Syn: ↑Ostracoda• Hypernyms: ↑class• Member Holonyms: ↑Crustacea, ↑class Crustacea• Member Meronyms: ↑seed shrimp, ↑mussel shrimp, ↑ostracod
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subclass Ostracoda
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Ostracoda — noun seed shrimps • Syn: ↑subclass Ostracoda • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Crustacea, ↑class Crustacea • Member Meronyms: ↑see … Useful english dictionary
subclass Entomostraca — noun in some older classifications includes the Branchiopoda and Copepoda and Ostracoda and Cirripedia; no longer in technical use • Syn: ↑Entomostraca • Hypernyms: ↑class • Member Holonyms: ↑Crustacea, ↑class Crustacea … Useful english dictionary
class Crustacea — noun class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas • Syn: ↑Crustacea • Derivationally related forms: ↑crustaceous (for: ↑Crustacea) … Useful english dictionary
Crustacea — noun class of mandibulate arthropods including: lobsters; crabs; shrimps; woodlice; barnacles; decapods; water fleas • Syn: ↑class Crustacea • Derivationally related forms: ↑crustaceous • Hypernyms: ↑class … Useful english dictionary
seed shrimp — noun tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp like body enclosed in a bivalve shell • Syn: ↑mussel shrimp, ↑ostracod • Hypernyms: ↑crustacean • Member Holonyms: ↑Ostracoda, ↑subclass Ostracoda * * * … Useful english dictionary
mussel shrimp — noun tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp like body enclosed in a bivalve shell • Syn: ↑seed shrimp, ↑ostracod • Hypernyms: ↑crustacean • Member Holonyms: ↑Ostracoda, ↑subclass Ostracoda … Useful english dictionary
ostracod — noun tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans with a shrimp like body enclosed in a bivalve shell • Syn: ↑seed shrimp, ↑mussel shrimp • Hypernyms: ↑crustacean • Member Holonyms: ↑Ostracoda, ↑subclass Ostracoda … Useful english dictionary
ostracod — also ostracode noun Etymology: ultimately from Greek ostrakon Date: 1865 any of a subclass (Ostracoda) of very small aquatic crustaceans that have the body enclosed in a bivalve carapace, the body segmentation obscured, the abdomen rudimentary,… … New Collegiate Dictionary
seed shrimp — any of numerous tiny marine and freshwater crustaceans of the subclass Ostracoda, having a shrimplike body enclosed in a hinged bivalve shell. Also called mussel shrimp, ostracod. * * * … Universalium
mussel shrimp — ▪ crustacean also called seed shrimp , or ostracod any of a widely distributed group of crustaceans belonging to the subclass Ostracoda (class Crustacea) that resemble mussels in that the body is enclosed within a bivalved (two valved)… … Universalium
